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Among those named companions to the order in the ceremony at Rideau Hall:
* Willard S. Boyle, an accomplished physicist who won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics, of Halifax.
Deserved
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* Kim Campbell, Canada's 19th, and first female, prime minister, of Vancouver.
Elected by her party which was in a shambles and rejected by Canada when it counted, then handed a job as council General to Los Angeles. Eh, bad call!
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Among those named officers of the order:
* Ivan Reitman, who directed the films Meatballs, Twins and Ghostbusters, of Montecito, Calif.
Ohhh he made one good film, one ok (or so I thought when i was 10) film and one, what was Twins about again? Bad call!
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* Jack Rabinovitch, founder of the Giller Prize for literature, of Toronto.
I know nothing about him so no comment here.I'll leave the review to the English Majors.
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* Burton Cummings, singer-songwriter, of Los Angeles.
Good music and he went to school with my father so he just might have been a good call if not for his bad attitude. Winnipegers might remember many years back when he had a hissy fit at his home town because they never named anything after him. Apparently he had ego issues in high school as well. As childish as he was they eventually named a community club after him. For Order of Canada I feel it has to be accomplishment as well as the person, in his case it should be "no Sugar Tonight" Burt, we'll send you a free crying towel insted, you can pick it up at your community centre which is in the middle of gang territory btw.
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* Mario Lemieux, former forward and now co-owner with the Pittsburgh Penguins, of Pittsburgh.
I go with one of the past posters comments. He did something he liked, was good at it, but how did he improve Canada and or Canada's reputation on the world stage?
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Among those named members:
* Gordon Nixon, CEO of the Royal Bank of Canada, of Toronto.
I know nothing about him so nothing to say here except Royal Bank sucks and really...selecting a banker? Hopefully there is more to it than that and he's donated half his wealth to charity or something.
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* Tantoo Cardinal, aboriginal actress and co-founder of the Saskatchewan Native Theatre Company, of Vancouver.
Unlike "I made 3 movies in the 80s people will remember dude at least she started something that might help take native kids off the street and give them some focus and safety etc. I'd give her the award at this level.
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* Jay Ingram, pioneer of programs devoted entirely to science on both national radio and television, of Toronto.
Sure why not!
All just personal opinion of course and my own be;lief in what one has to have done to get the highest honour in Canada.
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